Butter-mold



(No Model.)

A. L. KINNAMON & W. S. DEAN.

BUTTER-MOLD.

No. 429,690. Patented June 10, 1890.

. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT L. KINNAMoN AND WILLIAM STEWARD DEAN, OF SAUK CENTRE, MINNESOTA.

BUTTERi-MOLD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,690, dated June 10, 1890.

I Application filed June 3, 1889. Serial No. 313,001. (No model.) L

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ALBERT L. KINNAMON and WILLIAM STEWARD DEAN, citizens of the United States, residing at Sank Centre,in the county of Ste-arms and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Butter-Molds; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to butter-molds, and has for its objectthe construction of a device for removing such substances as butter, lard, oleomargarine, &c.,fro m firkins, jars, and like packages in pieces of any required size and weight, as prints of one-fourth, one-half, or one pound, more or less, without the necessity of weighing the same. Different-sized molds will be provided for different sizes of prints, as each mold is designed for a particular quantity. Thus a one-fourth-pound mold will cut a one-fourth-pound print only, and so on with each size of mold; or each size of mold can be provided with different-shaped knives, so as to increase or decrease the amount of butter or other commodity in print, retaining the same sized plate B.

The improvement consists of the novel features which will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and which are shown in the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view, parts being broken away, of a butter-mold embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a side view, parts being broken away, of the mold, showing its operation by dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the plate, the handle-operating rod and intermediate links being removed. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the knives on the line YY of Fig. 1 on an enlarged scale. Fig. 5 is a detail view of one end of the plate.

The stock A is tubular, and is provided with the handle 0 and at its lower end with the plate B. The lower end of the stock Ais slotted to form the branches at a, between which the knives D and their connections with the operating-rod E work.

The knives D, two being provided and located diametrically opposite each other, are similarly constructed and connected with the rod E; hence a description of one will suffice for both. The knife curves and its shank (Z is pivotally connected with the plate B, as shown, the curvature of the knife being on the arc of a circle having its center coincident with the pivotal connection of the shank d with the plate B. The links 6 connect the knives D with the lower end of the rod E and are pivotally connected at their ends with the knives and said rod, respectively, substantially as shown. The shanks d are of a less width than the knives, so that they can work on the plate B when the rod E is depressed to project the said knives below the plate. The edges of the plate B are recessed at b, as shown in Fig. 5, to receive the knives, so that the latter may come flush with the edges of the said plate. The scrapers G, spanning the recesses I), clean the knives when the latter are drawn up to release the print. The operating-rod E works through the stock A, and has a knob F on its upper end to be grasped when moving the said rod E.

The operation of the device is as follows: The plate B is placed on the butter or other like commodity and pressed upon sufficiently to leave the imprint thereof on the butter. The operating-rod is pressed down and forces the knives into the butter, the knives being long enough to meet below the plate, as shown in Fig. 2. The stock is turned half-way around in either direction, as the knives are doubleedged, separating the print, which is removed by lifting the mold. The print is discharged by withdrawing the rod E, which retracts the knives, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2. After a layer of the substance is removed the surface of the next layeris smoothed by using the mold as a patter.

The spring K, secured to the handle C at one end,bears on the rod E at its other end to hold the same from slipping.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the stock having the plate B at its lower end, and the curved knife having a shank, which shankis pivotally connected with the plate, of the operating-rod, and the link pivotally connected with the said knife and the rod, substantially as specified.

2. In a butter mold and cutter, the combination of the stock having plate B, the curved knives having shanks, which shanks extend in opposite directions and are pivotally connected with the said head, the operating-rod connected with the knife-shanks opposite their pivotal ends, and the scrapers G, spanning the said knives, substantiallyas and for the purpose described.

3. The combination, with the stock slotted at its lower end and having a head, and the curved knives having shanks which have pivotal connection with the head, the operatingrod, and the links pivotally connecting the knives with the said rod, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the stock, the cutting-knives, and the operating-rod connected with the knives, of the spring secured at one end to the stock and having its free end pressing laterally on the operating-rod to sustain it and the knives, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

5. The hereinbefore-dcscribed butter-mold,

comprising the tubular stock A,slotted at its 

